Me and You (Italian: Io e te), 2012. Directed by Bernardo Bertolucci.Starring Tea Falco, Jacopo Olmo Antinori, Sonia Bergamasco, Veronica Lazar, Tommaso Ragno, Pippo Delbono. SYNOPSIS: An an introverted teenager tells his parents he going on a ski trip, but instead spends his time alone in a basement. Sentimental and occasionally even soppy, unambitious in […]
19th Bradford International Film Festival – Mumbai’s King (2012)
Mumbai’s King, 2012. Directed by Manjeet Singh.Starring Rahul Bairagi, Dhanshree Jain, Arbaaz Khan, salman Khan and Tejas D. Parvatkar. SYNOPSIS: A mischievous adolescent and a streetwise balloon seller roam the rain-soaked slums of Mumbai, looking to escape the harsh realities of life. Mumbai’s King is just about as far away from the glamour of Bollywood […]
Action Man: A conversation with Ross Boyask, director of Warrioress
Tom Jolliffe chats with British filmmaker Ross Boyask, director of Warrioress… Brighton born film-maker Ross Boyask has been flying the flag for UK action films over the past decade. He’s directed a host of short films, including Pure Vengeance which starred Scott Adkins (Universal Soldier: Day of Reckoning, Undisputed 2 and 3) and was featured […]
Movie Review – The Collection (2012)
The Collection, 2012. Directed by Marcus Dunstan.Starring Josh Stewart, Emma Fitzpatrick, Christopher McDonald, Lee Tergesen, Tim Griffin, Andre Royo and Randall Archer. SYNOPSIS: A man who escapes from the vicious grips of the serial killer known as “The Collector” is blackmailed to rescue an innocent girl from the killer’s booby-trapped warehouse. In 2009, The Collector […]
Flickering Myth’s Greatest Comic Book Movies: #13 – Watchmen (2009)
Throughout April, we’re counting down to the release of Marvel’s Iron Man 3 with our picks for the Greatest Comic Book Movies of All Time; here’s #13… Watchmen, 2009. Directed by Zack Snyder.Starring Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Jackie Earle Haley, Malin Akerman, Billy Crudup, Matthew Goode, Carla Gugino and Patrick Wilson. For a long while, it […]
Comic Book Review – Batman #19
Martin Deer reviews the latest issue of Batman… “Bruce Wayne robs a Gotham bank, but not everything is as it seems.“ The next big storyline in Batman commences in issue #21 in June, and will re-tell Bruce Wayne’s origins as The Batman for the New 52. Until then however we have a two-part story, of […]
Special Features – Is Doctor Who losing its way?
Villordsutch thinks Doctor Who could be losing its way… Shortly after this was taken I was shouted at by that man. I’ve been a Doctor Who fan for as long as I can remember, I really have. My initial memories of the Doctor had to be Tom Baker’s huge grin. His regeneration scared me greatly […]
The Week in Spandex – Iron Man 3, Black Panther, The Avengers 2, Man of Steel and a DC Movie Universe, Hellboy 3, Chronicle 2 and more
Our weekly round up of the latest stories from the world of screen superheroes, including Iron Man 3, Thor: The Dark World, Captain America: The Winter Soldier, Black Panther, Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., Man of Steel, Justice League, Arrow, The Wolverine, X-Men: Days of Future Past, Daredevil, Chronicle 2, Hellboy 3, The Amazing Spider-Man 2, […]
Second Opinion – Oblivion (2013)
Oblivion, 2013. Directed by Joseph Kosinski.Starring Tom Cruise, Morgan Freeman, Olga Kurylenko, Andrea Riseborough, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Melissa Leo and Zoe Bell. SYNOPSIS: A drone repairman stationed on a desolate future Earth becomes humanity’s last hope for survival following the arrival of a mystery woman. Oblivion, the new sci-fi from writer/director/producer Joseph Kosinski (and director of […]
Late to the Show – Skins (2nd Generation)
In the next instalment of the ‘Late to the Show’ series, Luke Addison looks at the second generation of Skins…. This is the second of my three part Late to the Show series on Skins, if you missed my first part, read it here. As like the first two seasons, the third and fourth seasons […]
